Travel Blogs from Rostov-on-Don

Excellent hotel in Volvograd, lovely people and good price Visited the very poignant memorial site of Mother Russia before we left Otherwise another long day in the saddle, very hot, some dreadful roads, I swear we actually took off at one point after hitting a pot hole Arrived at our hostel, the worse, ...

... tried to figure out what to do with us. 4 hours later they told us we had to go back to the border we'd come in at and get a stamp. We were feeling pretty awful at this point because we'd just figured out while we were waiting that we wouldn't be able to finish the route we had planned because of the speeds we are averaging. With both of those issues settling in we called the embassy in Kiev to see what we could ...

... All in all a worthwhile experience and a good history lessons for the children. Elske was most fascinated by all the tanks and machine guns outside the museum. After some indulgence in the Sokoladnica (yes the chocoladecafe), we continued our trip in Western direction towards the Ukraine. Hopefully tomorrow we will reach the Crimea where we plan to spend a week or so before exploring the Western parts of the Ukraine.

... stop we were joined by two Russian air force officers, who spoke no English and at least one of them seemed to resent the fact that I had come to Russia without being able to speak Russian, but he clearly had no idea of tourism because he wanted to know where in Russia my family lived. Between the two of them they had a mountain of food including a roast chicken, and two bottles of vodka. What with my lawyer friend buying me beers and them offering vodka and chicken and the guy ...

... to. But the guards were very friendly and helpful, and they helped me to the right window to purchase our insurance for the car. Then as we were walking back to the car and they were searching it (pretty thoroughly), the guard asks me if we have any liquor or money. Now luckily we had hidden all the money on Lauren and we had poured our liquor into Sprite and ...